Data centers in Fulton County, Georgia: 16 projects mapped

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In Fulton County the zoning decisions belong to its fifteen cities, so the county commission has used the one lever it holds: money. On August 5, 2026 the Board of Commissioners passed a resolution opposing tax abatements or any other incentive for data centers from development authorities in the county, and urging the Development Authority of Fulton County to decline to consider them. That authority has granted $150 million in data center tax breaks since 2020, and the county says the state's own incentives are estimated to cost county and city governments $1.1 billion in sales tax revenue in 2026. "This resolution is about fiscal responsibility, protecting our tax digest, and respecting our municipal partners," said District 1 Commissioner Bridget Thorne, who sponsored it with District 2 Commissioner Bob Ellis.

The county's north end has been pausing. Milton's city council voted unanimously in June 2026 for a 30-day moratorium, open to extension, on every kind of data center application from rezonings to business licenses, and Roswell has adopted a moratorium too. Atlanta went earlier, and further: on September 3, 2024 the city council banned data centers along and near the BeltLine and within half a mile of MARTA stations. "Atlanta's data center market is one of the fastest growing in the nation," said Councilmember Jason Dozier, and it "raises serious concerns about the impact on our urban environment and essential infrastructure."

The south end is where the buildings are going. At least 20 data centers are being planned in southern Fulton County, an area of majority-Black cities including South Fulton, Union City and Fairburn, among them Vantage's 105-megawatt College Park Data Center Campus, Edged's 100-megawatt ATL01-2 building in Atlanta and xAI's site at QTS in Atlanta. South Fulton adopted rules in June 2025 on noise and distance from homes, then that August approved another project that the city had said could generate $7 million to $10 million in revenue. Water for Fairburn, Palmetto and Union City comes through a decades-old regional water and sewer authority that Chris Manganiello of Chattahoochee Riverkeeper said is struggling to find direction, identify partners and address funding needs. "They're noisy … they use a tremendous amount of water and electricity," said resident Yvonne Cole Boone. "We don't want our tree canopy to be knocked down."

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